Posts Tagged ‘mod_proxy_wstunnel’

I had a need to be able to put an Apache-based reverse proxy in front of an install of Uchiwa which is a Node.js-based dashboard for Sensu. The only problem is that it uses WebSockets which means it doesn’t work with the regular mod_proxy_http module. In version 2.4.5 onwards there is mod_proxy_wstunnel which fills in the gap however CentOS 6 only has a 2.2.15 (albeit heavily patched) package.

There are variousinstructions on how to backport the module for 2.2.x (mostly for Ubuntu) but these involve compiling the whole of Apache from source again with the module added via an additional patch. I don’t want to maintain my own Apache packages but more importantly Apache has provided apxs a.k.a the APache eXtenSion tool to compile external modules without requiring the whole source tree available.

So, I have created a standalone RPM package for CentOS 6 that just installs the mod_proxy_wstunnel module alongside the standard httpd RPM package. In order to do this I took the original patch and removed the alterations to the various build files and also flattened the source into a single file, (the code changes were basically adding whole new functions so they were fine to just inline together). The revised source file and accompanying RPM spec file are available in this Github gist.